Manifest Destiny was fueled by this economic reason
What is access to trade routes?
Immigrants often get blamed for a lack of this
What are jobs?
First attempt to apply the doctrine of popular sovereignty in determining the status of slavery occurred in
What is Kansas?
African American freedman, who consistently advocated for abolition and met with Lincoln on multiple occasions
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Amendment that abolished slavery
What is the 13th amendment?
Treaty that gave the U.S 55% of Mexico's land
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
There was large immigration from Western European countries due to
Crop Failures (Potato Famine)
Decision of the Dred Scott case
What is, African Americans are not people, but property.
The Election of 1860 led to this state being the first to secede
What is South Carolina?
What does the 15th amendment state
What is that all men can have suffrage?
The territorial changes shown on this map most directly resulted from which war.
What is the Mexican American War?
Double Jeopardy
Moving westward was not only for economic gain but also the spread this belief
What is white superiority?
Settlers in a territory could decide whether to have slavery or not.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
Which amendments most relate to Lincoln's "new birth of freedom" said during the Gettysburg Address
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?
Though the decision of Dred Scott was before the Reconstruction amendments, which amendment does the decision violate
What is the 14th amendment?
Double Jeopardy
Describe Manifest Destiny
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The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.
What is nativism?
The Dred Scott decision, repealed this compromise
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Though the South lacked in many resources, they had better this, compared to the North
What is military leadership?
These laws placed limits on the socio economic opportunities to African American people
What are Black Codes?
This law proposed the prohibition of slavery in the land acquired in the Mexican American War
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
The rise in Catholic Irish immigration led to this
What is Nativist sentiment/ Rise of Nativism?
The passage of the Compromise of 1850 included this harsh law
What is the Fugitive Slave Act
Double Jeopardy
Though the Emancipation Proclamation could not be enforced, it shifted the war from...
What is being about unifying the union to ending slavery?
The Compromise of 1877 resulted in
What was the withdrawal of troops from the South?